Galatia Films News

Reclaiming the Blade premiered at a gala event hosted at The Brooks Center in Clemson, South Carolina on April 27th, 2009. The event included appearances by the director, Daniel McNicoll, the producer, Erica Black, and several people featured in the film including Tom Urso, Whit Williams, and Preston Williams.

Before the film was screened, attendees enjoyed sword fighting demos from many different disciplines including Historical European Martial Arts, Kum Do, Sport Fencing, and Armtgard. Also several lucky audience members walked home with special gifts and prizes including signed DVDs, T-shirts, a Hasbro Force FX Lightsaber, and a historically accurate replica sword from Albion Swords.

The demos were beautifully captured by photographer Joshua Kelly. You may also view a video production diary highlighting the evenings events here.

Posted on Clemson University’s website:

Clemson University’s production of “Crossroads” was awarded a Silver Telly, the highest honor, in the 29th Annual Telly Awards competition. The film won the Silver Telly in the category of religious/spiritual productions. The production also garnered a Bronze Telly, the second place award, in the category of documentary.

The program, based on the research of Professor Mark Small of the Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life, the film portrays ministries of Catholic Sisters in South Carolina, highlighting their historical impact and challenging future. The film’s premiere was broadcast on South Carolina Educational Television on Easter Sunday 2008.

“Crossroads” represents a creative collaboration involving IFNL, the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina, and Clemson University’s Video Production Services.

Founded in 1979, the Telly Awards is the premier award program honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, the finest film and video productions, and groundbreaking web commercials, videos and films. A record 14,000 entries from 50 states and around the world were submitted to the competition and less than 10% were awarded a Silver Telly, making this year’s contest the most competitive in the long history of Telly Awards. A prestigious panel of more than 40 accomplished industry professionals judged the competition, upholding the historical standard of excellence that Telly represents.

Crossroads, a documentary produced by Clemson Video Production Services and featuring Erica Black as a cinematographer was recognized this week with a Videographer Award of Distinction. Add this to the two Tellys this program won and it is obvious that this productions turned out really nice. Written and produced by Elizabeth Anderson of Clemson University it was shot mostly in South Carolina. The touching story focuses on the Sisters contribution to social services including hospitals, elderly care, and education and what the plan is for the future is as more nuns reach the age of retirement and few younger sisters join the ranks behind them.

More about the award:

The Videographer Awards is an international awards program directed by communication professionals to honor talented individuals and companies in the video production field. Entrants include video production companies, advertising and public relations firms, corporate communication departments, cable and broadcast television operations, government agencies and schools, independent producers, and special event producers. Past winners have come from all 50 states and numerous countries.

The Videographer Awards is designed to identify communication professionals who are raising the standards of the industry and to give winners and their clients the recognition that the work they are producing is outstanding and highly regarded by their peers. The competition provides an equal chance of winning to all entrants, regardless of size and budget. Since there are no lengthy essays to accompany the entry, all work will be judged solely on its own quality, creativity and resourcefulness.

Lucy’s Tasty Treasures won two bronze Telly Awards during the 2008 season for outstanding film/video in the health and wellness category and for outstanding promotional piece in the health and fitness category.

Galatia Films writes, produces, shoots, and edits these episodes in conjunction with Dr. Katherine Cason of the Depart of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Clemson University. These are very prestigious awards and we are happy to be such an integral part of Lucy’s Tasty Treasures.

Lucy’s also won two other awards presented by the Professional Nutritional Society this month.